Tag: Politics

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Impeach Cheney

I’m impressed with what Bruce Fein, a Reagan era associate deputy attorney general has written in a piece which appears on Slate today.

Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III.


Read more here. I don’t think much is going to happen to Cheney or Bush because Congress is controlled by the corporations and until and unless they do something to hurt corporate America will be stuck with their incompetence and lawlessness.

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Crap

In today’s news there is word from General Petraeus, the latest pawn in Game Iraq that we’re succeeding in a new surge against Al-Qaida strongholds. I say that is essentially meaningless crap. A friend of mine used to say, “crap is crap and the square root of crap is still crap.” Continue reading “Crap”

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Did you know?

I’ve seen the following presentation a number of times and each time I come away with something a little different. I love the music but I love the thoughts highlighted by the music. I work in a small school system that is populated with students, teachers, administrators and parents. In many ways our school is a place where children go for formation. Continue reading “Did you know?”

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Then and now..

The Concert for Bangladesh occurred in August 1971. It’s been nearly thirty-six years since then and we’re at another watershed of emotion in world affairs. Will we turn our back on the suffering in Darfur? Will we turn our back on the suffering in Iraq and throughout the middle east. Continue reading “Then and now..”

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Thoughts

Too busy to write until now. I’ve all but stopped listening to what passes as news. I continue to skim Huffington, Think Progress and some other blogs. It’s getting late and I’ve just tuned into Game 3 of the Cleveland-San Antonio NBA Finals. I’m pulling for Cleveland, but they’re down 2-0 and trailing going into the fourth quarter of Game 3. Continue reading “Thoughts”

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Too funny

I came across this Will Ferrell video on another blog BagNews. I hope you enjoy this.

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